The Love Lottery (1954)

Directed by

Charles Crichton

Genre

comedy film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A famous film star gets caught up in a scheme where fans buy lottery tickets for a chance to marry him. The story satirizes celebrity worship with dream sequences and a cameo by another star.

lightheartedplayfulwhimsicalsatiricalbriskcheerfulfancifulsilly

What happens

The Love Lottery is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon and Herbert Lom. Produced by Ealing Studios it was one of several Ealing Comedies that veered away from the standard formula. The film examines celebrity and fan worship with an international setting including Lake Como, ambitious dream sequences, and an uncredited cameo appearance at the end by Humphrey Bogart as himself. It was shot in Technicolor. Interiors were shot at Ealing in West London with location shooting around Como in Italy standing in for the fictional town of Tremaggio. The film's sets were designed by the art director Thomas N. Morahan and the costumes by Anthony Mendleson. It was released by General Film Distributors as part of a long-standing agreement with Ealing. Crichton said "it wasn't successful. I quite liked it. Perhaps it was too much a whimsy whamsy thing." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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